ninety-fifth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-fourth; being the ordinal number for 95.
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being one of 95 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-fifth part, especially of one (1/95).
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the ninety-fifth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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So if you wanted to go to the ninety- fifth floor, you’d just press the 95 button and the ninety-fifth floor would come to you.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
He tells Alex that he is in the ninety-fifth percentile in height.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
And by a peculiarly gracious and fitting set of circumstances it came about that when, in April last, the ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of U. S.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan
He was, I think, in his ninety-fifth year.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
Nothing could exceed the manner in which the ninety-fifth set about the business....
From Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid
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